The most comprehensive, accessible, and completely up-to-date guide available for today’s photographer: whether beginner or advanced, using a...
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May 03, 2011
Daniel
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Tom Ang's book is a clear yet thorough guide to photography. Although it covers both digital and film photography, there is very little material that actually feels useless if, say, you only want to learn how to shoot digital. It's not a progressive course, but a solid reference, and I gained a lot by reading through it.
It's a color book, so it includes a great number of color photography to illustrate every nuance. It also covers the processing steps of digital photography, which is very useful More...
It's a color book, so it includes a great number of color photography to illustrate every nuance. It also covers the processing steps of digital photography, which is very useful More...
Nov 20, 2010
David
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This book covers a wide array of useful topics on just about every aspect of photography, and gives a good intro to all of them. The book includes chapters each on cameras, lenses, printing, color, light, etc. The problem is that each individual topic basically gets just a two-page spread, so many topics are covered too briefly. For example, he talks about demosaicking -- how the digital camera takes a bunch of individually-monochrome pixels and produces a complete image with colors at each s
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Dec 20, 2010
JV
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I was an idiot, I read it cover to cover like a novel. It's really more of a reference book. The layout, font size, and amount of information in this book would indicate it's a college-level textbook. But I bought it for dirt cheap and read it page-by-page.
I'm dizzy.
I'm dizzy.
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May 11, 2009
Irene
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Pretty good resource for all things photography. I like the color-coded parts of the book, the examples of images to illustrate a talking point, and the general language used in such a way as to teach the lingo without dumbing it down.
Feb 18, 2011
Andres
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Pretty good book. Is a book that covers a lot of topics on photography, but in some topics get too bored and isn't too much clear! I like it in general!
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